Functioning extra-adrenal paragangliomas
Bortolani, E.M.; Vandone, P.L.; Pizzocari, P.; Ghilardi, G.
Minerva Chirurgica 45(15-16): 1009-1012
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4733 PMID: 2177858 Document Number: 354283
The diagnosis of extra-adrenal paraganglioma requires the recognition of catecholamine hypertension and the site of the lesion. I-131-MIBG scintigraphy, CAT scan and angiography may localize primitive and metastatic lesions. Six cases of extra-adrenal paraganglioma (5 abdominal, 1 thoracic) surgically treated with complete resolution of the hypertensive state are presented here.